Digging around in the barn for something I decided to see what was in the loft and lo & behold look what I found!
What is this thingy?
It’s a brooder!
And it works!!
I had been using my Sweety, Karen’s, bird hospital cubicles as both hatcher and brooder. This practice had led me to rush my chicks into the juvenile pen after 2 or 3 weeks in order to avoid complaints about the odor. Now I can set up this brooder in the office of the new house for this season and then find it a permanent location when we move up the hill. I do need to figure out exactly how to set it up properly, temperature I get but this has a curtain that I ain’t quite sure what purpose it serves.
Two dozen eggs in the incubator.
This find couldn’t have come at a better time. The half dozen eggs in the second row up from the bottom go into lockdown this friday, the next half dozen just above go into lockdown 3 days later, and finally the outer two rows go in a 4 days later. Hopefully within the next 2 weeks I’ll have a brooder full of fluffy butts and an empty incubator ready for the Cream Legbar’s and Basque hatching eggs Karen is teasing me with AGAIN.
You have so much space and so many things that you could actually own a brooder and not know it? I’m amazed, impressed and horrified all at once.
Congrats on the timely find.
The barn is on the first half acre we bought from my wife’s Uncle Royce’s estate about 5 years ago, that is where my orchard/chickens/garden is. We never cleaned out the barn, just fixed up the house so our granddaughter, Alexa, and her family could live there. Royce was quite a unique man and we stumble across treasures every once in a while.
Oh man, now I’m even more jealous. You’ve got the coolest set up going.
That barn is a treasure trove 😄
What a find! So much history for so many chicks.
Oh man! I’m totally jealous! What a great find!!!! Happy for you,
It was discovered at the perfect time too. I have 6 eggs in the hatcher that are due tomorrow, another half dozen that go in Tuesday and a full dozen that are due a week for Monday. Tomorrow the brooder is going to get a thorough cleaning and set-up. I still don’t know what the curtain is for or what kind of light bulb to put in it, but Brower said they sent me an instruction manual.
Cool! Have fun and keep us posted!
Wish I had a barn and an attic! What a great find. And it works, too. It appears you were destined to raise chicks! Happy Easter Max. Enjoy the brooder and the babies.